How to Configure the Profiles Transport Properties for a Receive Endpoint

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Before you can configure the transport properties for a Commerce Server Core Systems Profiles receive adapter, you must create an appropriate receive port and receive location within the BizTalk Server Administration Console. For information about the aspects of these tasks specific to Commerce Server Core Systems adapters, see How to Configure a Receive Endpoint for a BizTalk Adapter.

Almost all the configuration properties associated with Commerce Server Core Systems Profiles receive adapter endpoints are configured within the Transport Properties dialog box associated with the receive location you have created for this adapter. This topic explains these properties and how to set them.

To configure the Profiles transport properties for a receive location

  1. In the BizTalk Server Administration Console, in the left pane, navigate to your Commerce Server Core Systems receive location or locations.

    Note

    You may also perform these steps in Visual Studio 2008.

  2. In the right pane, right-click the appropriate Profiles receive location, and then click Properties.

    The Receive Location Properties dialog box opens.

  3. Select the General tab in the left pane. In the Transport box in the right pane, click the Configure button associated with the Type selection (in which you have previously selected Commerce Server Profiles).

    The Commerce Server Profiles Transport Properties dialog box opens.

  4. In the Commerce Server Profiles Transport Properties dialog box, configure the operation of this Profiles receive adapter endpoint.

    Note

    By default, when you configure transport properties for Commerce Server Core Systems adapter endpoints, no Web service calls are made to validate the parameters you specify. However, you can set a key in the registry that will instruct the adapters to perform additional parameter validation that includes several Web service calls. For more information about this registry key, see Endpoint Configuration Validation.

    Transport property

    Description

    Adapter Endpoint Parameters - Incremental Export

    A required Boolean value that determines whether export messages will include only profile objects that have changed since the last execution of this Profiles receive adapter endpoint. True specifies that only changed profile objects will be included in export messages.

    The default value is False.

    Adapter Endpoint Parameters - Registry Subkey

    A required string that is used as a unique subkey within the following registry location:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Commerce Server 2007 BizTalk Adapters\Profiles

    This location, ending with the provided subkey, is used by the Commerce Server Core Systems Profiles receive adapter to store information such as the date and time this adapter endpoint was last run and the GUID it uses for tracing.

    Adapter Endpoint Parameters - Filter for profiles

    A string that specifies an XML filter expression to use to additionally filter the profiles that will be included in export messages. The Profiles property constitutes the primary filter, after which the filter provided for this property is applied.

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    Any profile property used in a filter that is specified using this transport property must apply to all profile types that are specified by the Profiles transport property; otherwise, an error is generated.
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    It is generally better to build complex filtering, such as might be related to business logic, within BizTalk Server itself. For example, a BizTalk orchestration could be used to filter out unneeded profiles from a message before passing that message on to a customer relationship management (CRM) system.

    The default value is blank, which indicates that no additional filtering of profiles is performed.

    For an example of an XML filter expression that you might use as the value of this property, see Creating Filter Clauses for the Orders and Profiles Adapters.

    Adapter Endpoint Parameters - Namespace

    A string that specifies a namespace to be added to export messages generated by this receive adapter endpoint.

    For more information about how this property is used, see Using the Namespace Transport Property.

    Adapter Endpoint Parameters - Profiles

    A string that contains a comma-separated list of the profile types to be included in export messages.

    The default value is blank, which indicates that all profiles of all types should be included in export messages.

    Connection Information - Web Service URL

    A required string that specifies the URL of the Commerce Server Core Systems Profiles Web Service.

    The default URL of the Profiles Web Service is:

    http://hostname/ProfilesWebService/ProfilesWebService.asmx

    Connection Information - Connection Timeout

    A number that specifies the Web service time-out duration, in seconds. Use "-1" to specify that there is no time-out duration.

    The default value is 100.

    Connection Information - Proxy Connection Information - Local bypass

    A Boolean value that specifies whether to bypass the proxy server when you use a local address.

    The default value is False.

    Connection Information - Proxy Connection Information - Port

    A string that specifies the port number on the proxy server through which you connect to the Profiles Web Service. There is no default value.

    Connection Information - Proxy Connection Information - Proxy Password

    A string that specifies the password to use when logging on to the proxy server.

    Connection Information - Proxy Connection Information - Proxy Server

    A string that specifies the URL of the proxy server, if any. Proxy server URLs must begin with "http://" or "https://".

    Connection Information - Proxy Connection Information - Proxy Username

    A string that specifies the user name to use when logging on to the proxy server.

    Connection Information - Web Service Password

    A string that specifies the password to use when logging on to the Profiles Web Service. This property is relevant only when a value is specified for the Web Service Username property.

    Connection Information - Web Service Username.

    A string that specifies the user name to use when logging on to the Profiles Web Service. If a name is not specified, BizTalk Server will use the running host instance credentials when logging on to the Profiles Web Service.

    For more information about host instances, see the BizTalk Server documentation.

    Fixed Query Interval - Days

    A whole number that is used when you choose Fixed for the Invocation Method property. This number, when combined with the corresponding numbers for hours and minutes, determines how often this Profiles receive adapter endpoint will generate export messages.

    The default value is 0.

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    The combined values of the Days, Hours, and Minutes properties must be less than 365 days.

    For more information about specifying the time interval between export operations, see Export Interval Choices for Receive Adapters.

    Fixed Query Interval - Hours

    A whole number that is used when you choose Fixed for the Invocation Method property. This number, when combined with the corresponding numbers for days and minutes, determines how often this Profiles receive adapter endpoint will generate export messages.

    The default value is 0.

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    The combined values of the Days, Hours, and Minutes properties must be less than 365 days.

    For more information about specifying the time interval between export operations, see Export Interval Choices for Receive Adapters.

    Fixed Query Interval - Minutes

    A whole number that is used when you choose Fixed for the Invocation Method property. This number, when combined with the corresponding numbers for days and hours, determines how often this Profiles receive adapter endpoint will generate export messages.

    The default value is 10.

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    The combined values of the Days, Hours, and Minutes properties must be less than 365 days.

    For more information about specifying the time interval between export operations, see Export Interval Choices for Receive Adapters.

    Invocation Style - Invocation Method

    A drop-down list choice that determines whether this Profiles receive adapter endpoint will generate export messages on a fixed interval, or at different intervals based on peak and off-peak hours of the day. The possible values are:

    • Fixed. Specifies that this Profiles receive adapter endpoint will generate export messages on the fixed interval specified by the Days, Hours, and Minutes properties in the Fixed Query Interval category.

    • Peak-Off peak Specifies that this Profiles receive adapter endpoint will generate export messages according to the intervals specified by the properties in the Peak Hours, Off Peak Hours Query Interval, and Peak Hours Query Interval categories.

    The default value is Fixed.

    For more information about specifying the time interval between export operations, see Export Interval Choices for Receive Adapters.

    Off Peak Hours Query Interval - Off Peak Hours

    A whole number that is used when you choose Peak-Off peak for the Invocation Method property. This number, when combined with the corresponding number for minutes, determines how often this Profiles receive adapter endpoint will generate export messages during off-peak hours.

    The default value is 0.

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    The combined values for the Off Peak Hours and Off Peak Minutes properties must be less than the duration of off-peak hours specified by the Begin and End properties.

    For more information about specifying the time interval between export operations, see Export Interval Choices for Receive Adapters.

    Off Peak Hours Query Interval - Off Peak Minutes

    A whole number that is used when you choose Peak-Off peak for the Invocation Method property. This number, when combined with the corresponding number for hours, determines how often this Profiles receive adapter endpoint will generate export messages during off-peak hours.

    The default value is 0.

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    The combined values for the Off Peak Hours and Off Peak Minutes properties must be less than the duration of off-peak hours specified by the Begin and End properties.

    For more information about specifying the time interval between export operations, see Export Interval Choices for Receive Adapters.

    Peak Hours - Begin

    A whole number between 0 and 23 that is required when you choose Peak-Off peak for the Invocation Method property. This number indicates the hour of the day at which peak hours begin.

    The default value is 0.

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    The values you choose for the Begin and End properties must be different.

    For more information about specifying the time interval between export operations, see Export Interval Choices for Receive Adapters.

    Peak Hours - End

    A whole number between 0 and 23 that is required when you choose Peak-Off peak for the Invocation Method property. This number indicates the hour of the day at which peak hours end.

    The default value is 0.

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    The values you choose for the Begin and End properties must be different.

    For more information about specifying the time interval between export operations, see Export Interval Choices for Receive Adapters.

    Peak Hours Query Interval - Peak Hours

    A whole number that is used when you choose Peak-Off peak for the Invocation Method property. This number, when combined with the corresponding number for minutes, determines how often this Profiles receive adapter endpoint will generate export messages during peak hours.

    The default value is 0.

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    The combined values for the Peak Hours and Peak Minutes properties must be less than the duration of peak hours specified by the Begin and End properties.

    For more information about specifying the time interval between export operations, see Export Interval Choices for Receive Adapters.

    Peak Hours Query Interval - Peak Minutes

    A whole number that is used when you choose Peak-Off peak for the Invocation Method property. This number, when combined with the corresponding number for hours, determines how often this Profiles receive adapter endpoint will generate export messages during peak hours.

    The default value is 0.

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    The combined values for the Peak Hours and Peak Minutes properties must be less than the duration of peak hours specified by the Begin and End properties.

    For more information about specifying the time interval between export operations, see Export Interval Choices for Receive Adapters.

    User Defined Context Properties - Site name

    A string that specifies the name of the Web site that this receive adapter supports. There is no default value.

See Also

Other Resources

How to Add a BizTalk Adapter

How to Configure a Receive Endpoint for a BizTalk Adapter

Export Interval Choices for Receive Adapters

Creating Filter Clauses for the Orders and Profiles Adapters

Configuring a Profiles Adapter Endpoint